1986.471: Birches
Drawings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1986.471
- People
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Maurice Brazil Prendergast, American (St. Johns, Newfoundland, Canada 1858 - 1924 New York, NY)
- Title
- Birches
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- c. 1910-1913
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/309363
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Transparent and opaque watercolor, pastel, and graphite on heavy off-white wove paper
- Dimensions
- 38.9 x 47.3 cm (15 5/16 x 18 5/8 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: gray ink, l.l.: Prendergast
- inscription: backing board, blue chalk: no. 10 substitute for Jongville
- inscription: backing board, black chalk: $600
- gallery label: removed from old backing, now in curatorial file, paper, printed and typed
- exhibition label: removed from old backing, now in curatorial file, paper, printed, typed and handwritten: [printed:] receipt no. [typewritten in red:] 71.64 [handwritten in blue ink:] 138.65
- exhibition label: removed from old backing, now in curatorial file, paper, printed and typed: S. E. 2985
- exhibition label: removed from old backing, now in curatorial file, paper, printed and typed: no. 52
- watermark: J WHATM[AN]
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
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[Kraushaar Galleries, New York] sold; to Mr. and Mrs. McAndrews, 1956, gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1986
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Betty Bartlett McAndrew
- Accession Year
- 1986
- Object Number
- 1986.471
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Works from Private Collections, exh. cat., Boston University Art Galleries (Boston, MA, 1960), n.p., cat. 74
- Carol Clark and Nancy Mowll Mathews, Maurice Brazil Prendergast: A Catalogue Raisonné, Williams College Museum of Art (Williamstown, MA, 1990), no. 1096, repr.
- Joachim Homann, Margaret Morgan Grasselli, and Miriam Stewart, ed., American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2023), repr. as pl. 21 on p. 90
Exhibition History
- Maurice Prendergast Memorial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 02/21/1934 - 03/22/1934
- Four Boston Masters, Jewett Arts Center, Wellesley, 04/10/1959 - 05/11/1959; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 05/19/1959 - 06/26/1959
- Works from Private Collections, Boston University Art Galleries, Boston, 04/23/1960 - 05/14/1960
Verification Level
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